General Motors to cut jobs at Oshawa pickup plant

General Motors to cut jobs at Oshawa pickup plant

General Motors continue to struggling in the North American market as they have now announced plans to cut around 1,100 jobs at a truck plant in Ontario.

The sales of pickup trucks is going down and the company needs to cut costs to stay profitable in this segment of the market.

The company added that they are going to cut production of Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks in Oshawa, Ontario starting January next year.

David Paterson, vice-president of GM Canada added: “What we are doing basically, is planning to make sure that our production’s disciplined and in line with where we see the market demand. The pickup truck segment has been veering down for a variety of different reasons, so we need to balance our production to the supply.”

Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers Union was however not amused. He said: “They shocked the living hell out of us, quite frankly. We had not anticipated any announcement of layoffs. We thought the eliminating of the overtime would be enough to help control the inventories.”